[23] in Kakapo Windows Team
Re: WIN domain "off-site" servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jul 7 21:00:46 2003
Message-Id: <200307080059.h680xO3Y009765@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Kerem B Limon <kerem.limon@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, rar@MIT.EDU, tregan@MIT.EDU,
rferrara@MIT.EDU, longpd@MIT.EDU, vkumar@MIT.EDU, pismere-ops@MIT.EDU,
kakapo@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:16:03 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:59:23 -0400
Yes, it is ok (in fact encouraged) to mention the physical redundancy
to customers. In fact, I sent the mail so you and other would have
the information and be able to pass it on. And no, I have no problem
with the documentation mentioning that the locations are w92 and w20,
unless you're worried abotu the documentation being out of date when
we move the third DC.
Jonathon
> Hi, Jonathon--
>
> I have a quick question. For purposes of responding to customer inquiries
> and for inclusion in marketing and technical documentation, I presume it's
> OK to mention that there is at least geographic/site redundancy as far as
> DC and Dfs roles are concerned. Are you (ASO) uncomfortable with the
> locations (not that they're ultra-secret) being identified as W92 and W20?
> Is there any reason to make that ambiguous (I don't anticipate so)?
>
> Thanks,
> Kerem
>
>
> At 03/07/07 20:08 Monday, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >A number of you are already aware of this, but I wanted to make sure
> >that you all were.
> >
> >I'm pleased to announce that after work that was completed in the past
> >couple of weeks, the WIN.MIT.EDU domain is no longer dependent on the
> >w92 machine room for simple operations like logging in. Over the past
> >weeks, all three domain controllers for WIN were upgraded, and in the
> >process, one of them was moved from the w92 machine room to the w20
> >machine room. The two other two DCs are still in w92, though we plan
> >to move one of them to a third location on campus sometime in the next
> >six to eight months or so. Additionally, a second windows fileserver
> >was deployed to w20 (the first one is in w92) and the data that is
> >used in daily operation of the domain has been replicated between
> >them.
> >
> >There are (and will probably always be) some functions that are
> >dependent on the w92 machine room. These include: RIS (network) based
> >installs (but not CD based installs where the machine is later joined
> >to the domain), and some non-critical cleanup that is done after a
> >machine is joined to the domain (which will happen later if a client
> >machine can't contact the w92 machine room).
> >
> >If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
> >
> > Jonathon
>
>
